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Upon the 24:th of November, 1871, :\ re-union oC tlie 28tli 
and 147 Regiments, Pennsylvania Volunteers, was held at the 
St. Lawrence Hotel, in the City of Philadelphia, Major Gen. 
Hector Tyndale, presiding ; after effecting an organization by 
the election of 

President^ 

Major Gen. John W. Geary. 

Yice Presidents, 

Major Gen. Hector Tyndale, Brig. Gen. Ario Pardee, 

Brigadier Gen. John H. Flynn. 

Secretary, 

Lieutenant Colonel John P. Nicholson. 

Assistant Secretaries^ 

J. K. Pryor, Jos. L. Cornet, 

Thos. Armer, Sergt. E. M. Eby, 

Thos. Duffy. Sergt. H. M. Quirk, 

Corf. Wm. P. Roberts, Jr. Corp. John Mills. 

Treasurer, 

Cart. W. J. Mackay. 

Executive Committee, 

Col. Jas. Fitzpatrick, Capt. Caleb Greenawalt, 

Col. H. E. GooD:\rAN, M. D. Capt. Joseph W. Hammer, 

Capt. Jacob P. Kreider, Lieut. Calvin Pardee, 

Lieut. G. W. H. Calver, M.lJ. Lieut. Aaron Lazarus, 

Lieut. Chas. W. Chapman, Lieut. Henry Hoffer, 

GusTAvus Hartley, Lieut. John Gorman, 
Capt. A. E. Colgan. 

AS OFFICERS TO SERVE FOR THE ENSUING YEAR. 



The adoption of a ('Onstitutiou and By-Laws, and de- 
toriniiiiiii:' tliat tlic next rc-unioii sliould be lield at Ilazelton, 
Luzerne County, November 24tli, 1872, tbe members proceeded 
to Independtjnce ILall, wliere the Mayor of the City, Hon. D. M. 
Fox, welcomed them. Upon the eonclusion of the ceremonies 
the members proceeded to Belmont Mansion, I^'airmouut Park, 
where a bancpiet had been prepared, over which, the President, 
Major Gen. <ieai-y i)resided. Upon the removal of the cloth, 
and in I'e.sponse to Toasts, remarks were made by Generals 
Meade, Hooker, Geary, Patterson, Mindil and Tyndale, the 
latter in response to the " 28tli Regiment,'" gave a historical 
sketch of it. Ui)on motion, Gen. Tyndale was unanimously 
requested to I'uniish a copy of his remarks for publication. 

In compliance with the request of the association the manu- 
script has been kindly presented, and the publication will no 
doubt bo of interest "to all who were connected witli the 

" 28th " 

JOHN P. NICHOLSON, 

Secretary. 



REMARKS 



OF 



^REYET JAajor General 

Hector Tynrlale. 



Comrades of the 28th, I shall speak to 
you of your own and your dead comrades 
deeds. I heartily thank you for the opportunity. 

As there were twenty-five three months re- 
giments from Pennsylvania at the beginning of 
the War of the Rebellion, so the 28th became 
the third of the three years regiments raised 
in this state. 

It was organized in Philadelphia, although 
its members represented very many of the 
counties of the State. Ario Pardee Sr., of Hazle- 
ton, aided this organization very greatly. It 
was mustered into the service of the United 
States, on the 28th June, 1861. John W. Geary 
being Colonel. 

The War Department gave permission to 
increase the number of its companies to fifteen, 
forming three battallions, of which the two 
first went to the front July 27th and the third 
battallion in August of 1861. This made the 
effective force of the regiment about 1550 men 
and officers, the most of whom were accustomed 
to and were dextrous in the use of fire arms, 



iiianv of tliL'in bcinij cxijcrts. It was at first 

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brigatlcd under Colonel, afte'rwards (icncral 
Cicorgc H. Thomas, in Banks" Division. Troni 
Sandy Hook it moved to Point of Roeks, Mar) - 
land, and while at this point the well knowii 
and splendid Knap's Battery was formed from 
the regiment, \\ith whieh it was and is identihed 
as of one ilesh and one blood. 

During the b^all and Winter of 1861-62 the 
28th guarded about twenty-four miles of the 
Potomac, reaching from Monocacy River to An- 
tietam Creek, including Point of Rocks, Berlin 
and Harper's Ferry, Its first action was thcit 
of Bolivar Heights, \'irginia near Harper's 
Ferry, on the i6th of October. It marched to 
Fdward's Ferry after the disaster of Ball's Bluft', 
to support our troops thrown across the Poto- 
mac at that point. During all that winter the 
regiment was somewhat actively engaged in 
skirmishes along the river, so that when the arm\ 
under McClellan, in February, 1862, crossed into 
Virginia at Harper's Ferry, (in which operation 
the 28th was the advance, holding the tow 11 
and the bridge-head), the regiment had alread\' 
passed more than six months in the best school 
of the soldier — acti\e outpost dutx. 

Under LieutenantColcjnel, afterwards Colonel 
De Korpona)'and Brigaded under Colonel, after- 



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wards (icncral (icar)', in Williams' l)i\'ision, the 
regiment formed the left flank of Banks' Army 
Corps and held, with the first Michigan Cavalry, 
the counties of Loudoun, Fauquier, Warren and 
others during the Spring and part of the Sum- 
mer of 1862, while Banks occupied the Valley 
of Virginia. Here it did a great deal of exposed 
and hard work \\hich showed and trained the 
manly pride and spirit of its members. 

One morning early in that Spring, w'hile 
marching' in the fallinLT snow, then of a foot's 
depth, the officer immediately commanding the 
regiment, observing a pale, delicate boy-member 
staggering under the weight of his accoutre- 
ments and showino;- sio'ns of distress, ordered 
him to report to the surgeon for the ambulance 
train ; whereupon the brave fellow, himself 
carefully and tenderly nurtured, said, "Oh, 
please not sir, I'm plenty strong enough and 
prefer to march with the boys if you'll let me," 
this granted, then he asked leave to retain his 
musket as "every soldier loved his musket." 
This boy, Rhodes of Allegheny, brave and true 
comrade, was afterwards killed at Ringgold. 

Again, on another occasion, at White Plains, 
when the snow^ lay mid-leg deep over all the 
country, the sentinel in front of an officer's tent, 
was seen to suffer intensely from exposure and 



a severe cold. When told to call the corporal 
of the ^'uard to be relieved because of his illness, 
he dre^\' himself up and, saluting, said, "Please 
no sir, I've never yet lost a day from duty and, 
please God, I never will" — and he never did until 
he was shot in the front of battle and died upon 
the field, he and his loved companions had won. 

In the sharp and bloody action of Front Royal, 
in May of that year, Knap's Battery lost heavily 
in common w ith Colonel Kenly's Maryland re- 
giment, both ha\ing behaved nobly in the affair. 

When the army of Virginia was formed under 
General Pope, the twenty-eighth was placed in 
Auger's Division and in (xeary's Brigade, to- 
gether with the gallant fifth, seventh, tiveuty- 
niutli and sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteers, and 
these regiments remained together in the same 
brigade during the whole war. 

Under the command of Lt. Colonel Tyndale, 
the regiment participated in the battle of Cedar 
Mountain." By the direct and personal orders 
of General Banks, it took and held an important 
position on the far-extreme right of the army. 
For its conduct it received the thanks of General 
Inuiks as it had done on former and did again 
on after occasions from him and other general 
officers. 

During Pope's retreat it showed its pre\ious 



training and discipline in its close and steady 
marching and by its promptness, courage and 
steadfastness under the severe and constant 
pressure upon our army of Lee's overwhelm- 
ing forces. But the 28th was not downcast 
then. During the gloomiest of the retreat, 
the whole command being near the third day 
without food of any kind, an c^fficer, to whom a 
biscuit had been given by a friend from a relie\'- 
ing regiment, offered it to a member of ours. 
Our comrade hungrily put out his hand to take it 
and then drawing back he blushed and said, 
"No sir, thank you, but you need it more than 
I do." Among the thousands sleeping on the 
fields of battles, no one was more beloved by 
or was more' true to his peers and companions, 
whom he knew and trusted so well, than you, 
dear comrade, brave Harrison White. 

The series of actions and battles after Cedar 
Mountain was continuous and destructive to our 
forces, including Brandy Station, Rappahannock, 
Freeman's Ford, Warrenton Springs, Bristoe 
Station, second Bull Run, Chantilly. — At this 
last action, the gallant Kearney rode along the 
ranks of the 28th and complimented it as a 
soldier should. 

Here, by the direct orders of Cicneral Pope, the 
regiment held and afterwards destroyed two 



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l)i-id^cs c)\cr Hull run, tluis aidiiii;" the security 
of the army. B\ the same direct (orders, the 
regiment was detailed to destroy the immense 
([uarter-master and commissary stores whicli 
coukl not be passed across Kettle Creek bridge, 
as the enemy had cut the trestle work. 

The 28th, severely and sorely tried, arrixed 
at the Potomac, perhaps the last regiment of 
our army and the nearest to the enemy. It then 
numbered about or less than 700 men, many of 
whom were sick \\ ho recjuested to be and were 
kept on acti\e duty. At the battle of South 
Mountain, the regiment, under Major, afterwards 
(ieneral Pardee, was in reserve in the brigade 
commanded by Lt. Colonel Tyndale, Cxeneral 
Cireene's Dixision of (ieneral Mansfield's Corps. 

At the battle of Antietam, with about 650 
muskets, the regiment, in the right wing of our 
army, entered in front of the cornfield and the 
Dunkard Church — and from both of those well 
known positions and from that entire \icinity 
the enemy was driven with terrible loss by the 
brigade of w hich the 28th formed more than a 
full half. 

Let n'le detail a fragment here — llx pcdc 
I Icrculcjii. 

At the instant, and in the face of your deplo)- 
ment one of the best and finest bricrades in (Uir 



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service \\-as in full retreat— routed before the 
closely following enemy, pushing heavily and 
rapidly down the cornfield. Here, with its ranks 
somewhat disordered by the retreat of the 
brigade referred to, the steady 28th threw in 
such a fire that it is spoken of to this day 
by those, yet li\'ing, who heard its xolume and 
by those who felt its force. For full twenty 
minutes this pounding was mutual and earnest — 
then the enemy broke, leaving hundreds more 
upon the field which Hooker's forces had already 
piled \vith dead. Immediately after this the 
regiment, obliquing to the left, drove the enemy 
trom a strong position, which, while somewhat 
sheltered from the fire from the \\ oods beyond, 
to a certain extent commanded the cornfield. 

From seven in the morning until three in the 
afternoon the 28th was in one continuous roar 
and fiame of fire. But its spirit did not bate 
one jot. After one of its charges, when it had 
again and again been thanked, a company "M" 
man roared out, "Fd rather be a member of 
the 28th than king of the whole world." — Then 
how you cheered, as if you had not been 
fighting for hours, and near one half of your 
numbers lying behind you on the ground 
you had w(jn. Idie whole regiment was eager 
and full of spirit. Towards the middle of the 



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(la\- tlic cncnn's sharpshooters \vcrc annoyin^^ 
our front from \\hich their hne had aij^ain been 
ch-i\en. Company "A," Captain iMtzpatrick, 
was ordered to, and did clear them out quickly, 
but other companies almost clamored to assist 
the detail. One member of Company " P^" 
Captain (ireenawalt, asked and was i^ranted leave 
to i^o out with "A." Me soon came back with 
"his man" whom he had "spotted," exchanged 
shots with, and, after wounding, had captured, 
much to the satisfaction of our comrade. 

AMiile the reijiment lav in the hollow field, 
some distance in front of the church, the enemy 
tried a sharp ruse. All at once from the Av^oods 
at the top of the cornfield, upon our right wliich 
they had again and again \'ainly tried to turn, 
came a quick, rattling musketry fire and then a 
large number of blue coated men, many without 
arms, running before a dense and heavy column 
of the enemy who followed on their heels. This 
ruse succeeded for a moment, as it stopped 
firing for the time, but sharp-eyed Sergeant; 
afterwards Captain Knight called out, "Why 
they're all greybacks " — and then came a shout 
of "give "em hell." — Then was one of the 
most destructive fires of the war. Being 
on a hillside, every shot told on the enemy's 
column and their whole uuisse melted away 



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as an icicle when thrust against a red-hot stove. 
In vain their officers strove to drive an ad- 
vance, they were hopelessly beaten and thrown 
back to the woods from which they were shortly 
afterwards compelled to fall back. 

Here let me relate one terrible incident of that 
battle to remind you, if that could be forgotten, 
how brave were the men against you who gave 
up the ground that day, foot by foot. About 
one o'clock the brigade was again in the charge 
moving immediately on the church and the 
woods behind it; its wings were slightly ad- 
vanced according to the formation of the ground. 
The enemy had fallen back from the wings but 
in their centre, in a hollow just in front of the 
church, stood a brave regiment, which when 
our centre, then held by the 28th, advanced over 
a slight elevation, delivered a point blank and 
heavy fire upon it. A momentary pause and the 
whole brigade belched a concentric and simul- 
taneous fire, which in the twinkling of an eye 
swept that devoted regiment from the earth. 
They lay in long, straight lines — the heads of 
the front in the laps of the rear rank. They 
were splendid and true soldiers. Upon that field 
a few years ago, nailed to a tree, was a board 
inscribed, " Here lie the bodies of two hun- 



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drcd and forty of tlie North Carolina 

RcL;'inicnt killed upon this spot.'"* 

Three times upon the right of your regiment 
and brigade and as often on your left did the 
enemy push hard-fighting, heavy masses and 
eaeh time they were repulsed. In one of these 
attacks upon your left battallion — at the time 
under Major Raphael w ho was just then sup- 
porting Knap's battery, which all day gave and 
received very hard blows — the enemy rushed 
almost to the guns. Here occurred hand 
to hand encounters which showed your per- 
sonal courage equal to your high qualities as 
disciplined and reliable soldiers. In one of 
these encounters Lieutenant, afterwards Major 
Borbridge, cut the regimental colors from the 
hands of a South Carolina Sergeant who fought 
most bravely and who stubbornly held his flag- 
after he had been cut down. 

After each of these repulses the wings advanced, 
while your centre fought its way foot by foot to 
the front, position after position, until about two 
o'clock, when you stood far behind the church 
facing the last hill between you and the Potomac, 
behind which hill lay the beaten yet fighting ene- 

*This relation of the board and the numbers, were given to the speaker by Mr. Miller, 
of Antietam, upon whose grounds this event occurred. The number of the regiment 
is believed to be the 8th North Carolina. The board was said to have bixn nailed to 
the tree by some of Lee's army of invasion, in 1863. 



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my, who were of Stonewall Jackson's forces. 
You will remember that at this time the enemy's 
left had been weakened by the withdrawal of 
forces to their right to meet Burnside's attack. 
While facing this last position it was deter- 
mined to attempt the hill in front and your 
commanding officer called for a hundred \'olun- 
teers of the 28th to lead the advance against it 
— a forlorn hope almost. What response did you 
make to this Comrades ? Every man stepped 
forward as cheerfully as if going on parade — the 
light of batde still brightly burning in each face 
after so many hours of fighting when many, if 
not all of you, had fired more than one hundred 
and fifty rounds apiece. But that charge was 
not to be — some troops of another brigade, 
which had been brought up and posted upon 
our right and rear, gave way and let in upon us 
heavy columns of the enemy, causing our brig- 
ade to fall rapidly to the left. 

The loss of the 28th Regiment on that day 
was about two hundred and fifty killed and 
^\"ounded — missing none ; but the blows struck 
upon the enemy in front were terrific and their 
losses in killed and wounded fearful — far exceed- 
ing those of your entire brigade and estimated 
by many, and it is more than probable too, at 
more than the numbers of your brigade when 



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it first entered the fi^dit. Tlie fis^htinu' on the 
part of thi: 28th, as of the whole brigade indeed, 
was magnificent — charging, repulsing, some- 
times on the belly, always self-contained, always 
aggressive and always advancing, until at about 
three o'clock your right was turned by vastly 
superior numbers, and then, receiving the fires 
of the enemy from the front, right and rear, you 
made your way to the left and there held the 
enemy at bay until our batteries in the rear, your 
collected fire and their own exhaustion drove 
the beaten enemy from before the thin ranks 
of that noble brigade. — But even here you 
showed the true soldier. While in full retreat 
and almost surrounded, our comrade Lieutenant 
Borbridge seeing his superior officer fall dead, 
as he supposed, stopped, turned in the face 
of a heavy fire and with the aid of a Sergeant, 
whose name is unkno\vn,* dragged the body to 
a shelter, from behind which, comrades, your 
accurate, firm and persistent firing soon checked 
the advancing foe, who at last, though but for 
a short time, had seen your backs. 

Your brigade captured that day seven battle- 
flags, some say nine, of which the 28th took 
five or six; drove or destroyed the regiments 
which had carried them, captured one battery 

Not-' 2. Supposed tJ li;iv(* been killed. 



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and silenced another.'^" It gives great pleasure 
to say not only were you thanked personally 
several times during that day, but that your im- 
mediate commander, Major Pardee, was thanked 
on the field for his conduct and yours. 

From his foot know Hercules — From this 
sketch of one action, judge ye of the \\hole 
career of "the steady 28th.'" 

Following the enemy into Virginia, the regi- 
ment, in its old command, was stationed all the 
next winter, 1862-63, at Dumfries and here aided 
in the repulse of Stuart's Cavalry which attacked 
that point. While lying here, the third bat- 
taUion of five companies (namely L., M., N.,0., 
and P.) was detached from the 28th and, with 
three other Pennsylvania Companies, was formed 
into the 147th Pa. Regiment, under Lt. Colonel, 
afterwards, General Pardee. But these two noble 
regiments should not be spoken of separately, 
as they were and are one in e\^ery feeling as 
they were in every action. 

The 1 2th Corps having been formed, the 
division and the brigade, of which last the 28th 
and 147th remained a large part, were placed in it. 



" Note 3. It is proper to say that many men of Union regiments and brigades, 
whicli weie broken up in tlie progress of tlie batll;-, gallantly joined you duiing the day 
and somewhat compensated tor your losses. 



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AtChcinccllor\ illc the regiment again suffered 
hea\il}' and did noble and signal service. Its 
loss in that battle was over loo out of 307 men 
engaged. The works thrown up by the 28th 
on the field were marvels of rapidity of execu- 
tion and of ingenuity. The tenacity and holding- 
power of the regiment were here again de- 
monstrated. 

Present at Gettysburg the 28th did not lose 
heavily but it was hard worked and, with the 
mcxst of Slocum's Corps, was moved from our 
right to the support of the left which was so 
terribly pushed on the afternoon of the second 
day of that batUe, and those most -worthy and 
gallant companions of the regiment, those of 
the brigade of General Greene, inflicted very 
heavy loss upon the enemy in front of their 
works, on Gulp's Hill. These works were in 
part C(3nstructed and defended by the 28th, 
and the enemy's loss in front of them was 
immense. 

With the old fighting army of the Potomac, 
under Meade, it moved in the pursuit of Lee after 
(Gettysburg. 

Following the Union defeat at Chickamauga, 
with its own and the eleventh Corps, both under 
Hooker, the 28th was moved out to Alabama 
under command of Cai)t. Flyiin. While at 



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Bridgeport, holding Uiat point, occured the action 
of Wauhatchie, Tennessee, one of the most im- 
portant and interesting, in its results, of all the 
minor battles of the war. Fought at midnight of 
the 28th October, 1863, in an unknown country 
against heavy odds, that action reflected glory 
not only upon the brigade which fought it, 
but upon its compeers and comrades with 
whom it had so often and so long marched 
and fought side by side, (jlory not only to 
Greene's brigade and to our Knap's magnifi- 
cent battery — General Geary in command — 
but upon the whole 12th Corps and upon the 
brave, patient and true soldiers of the eleventh, 
Howard's Corps — some of whose brigades 
carried, at the point of the bayonet, the hills on 
which were posted the enemy's reserves and thus 
caused or aided in causing all their forces to fall 
back. The 28th had no cowards among its 
companion regiments. 

Following this in a few weeks came the five days 
battles around Chattanooga. On this day, the 
24th November eight years ago, the 28th in its 
old brigade and division moved upon Lookout 
Mountain, as part of the general plan of Grant 
at Chattanooga. As explained to the speaker 
by General Hooker, it was a beautiful move- 
ment well carried out. The mere ascent of 



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Lookout Mountain th^ou^■h the wild forest, over 
immense roeks and fallen trees, was of itself a 
toilsome feat, and the "28th" and their eom- 
panions should be proud of the brilliancy and 
beauty of that action. Not losing many that day, 
so well timed was the movement of (jcneral 
Osterhaus on the other flank of the mountain, yet 
the hard work performed and the rapidity of ex- 
ecution made it tell heavily on the whole 
command. 

During" all these days around Chattanooga 
and following the enemy down into Georgia, the 
28th was activly engaged — losing sharply at 
Ringgold. 

One of the noble fellows wounded at this 
battle lay dying in the hospital at Chattanooga 
and when spoken to by an old comrade said 
strongly and with cheer — " Never fear sir, I'll be 
back again with the boys of our old regiment!" 
And he is with very many of them to day — \\ ith 
our loved and lost comrades. 

Returning to Wauhatchie, the 28th re-enlisted 
for three years from December 1863, under Col- 
onel Thomas J. Ahl. 

In the spring of 1864, in the army of the great 
and good Thomas, the regiment, under Colonel, 
afterwards General John Mynn, moved in the 
Grand Army of Sherman through (icorgia to 



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the sea. All the way down — before and at 
Atlanta, Rocky- Faced Ridge, Resaca, Kenesaw, 
Mill Creek, Dallas, Snake Gap and else- 
where — was one continous advance and fight At 
Peach Tree Creek the regiment lost many but 
inflicted heavy blows upon the enemy. What 
that hundred days cost that army, none but 
soldiers can know. What the soldiers suffered, 
no one can tell — their heroism is known, in its 
fullness, only in Heaven. But they marched 
and suffered and fought and w^ent on clean down 
to the end — yea throiigh the bitter end out into 
the full light of their gloriously saved Union. 

They marched on through Milledgeville to 
Savannah where the "28th" was among the 
troops which garrisoned that City. Through the 
Carolinas to Raleigh, to Richmond, to Wash- 
ington ! Then what they felt no one but a soldier 
can feel. The divine hands of appreciating sym- 
pathy were laid upon the soldiers and they 
were blessed — 

The 28th, the 147th and Knap's battery, "three 
joined in one," were mustered out in June, 
1865. 

Upon the rolls of the 28th, from first to last, 
there were 2834 men and officers. The number 
of its killed and severely wounded in action, so 
far as the speaker can learn, was about 500, not 



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including those of the 147th. How many died 
of disease in the service and of disease and 
wounds after discharge can never be known.* It 
fought in eight states of the Union, in twenty-four 
battles and engagements and in nineteen skir- 
mishes. From it were made two regiments ; 
one battery of six guns (Knap's); two Brevet 
Major Generals with the full rank of Brigadier 
Generals; two Brevet Brigadier Generals ; six 
Colonels ; two Brevet Colonels ; four Lieutenant 
Colonels; three Brevet Lieutenant Colonels; six 
Majors; two Brevet Majors — add to these whole 
scores of brave and deserving line officers, and all 
these and more were made by you — more for you 
made nearly three thousand excellent soldiers 
and — better yet, for, less your dead, you have 
made that number of intelligent, self-respecting 
and honored citizens. »*»*»« » 
The great war was ended and our li\'ing 
heroes came back home. On the 90th anni- 
versary of American Independance, on the 4th 
of July, 1866, our dear old State gathered into 
her arms all the battle flags of her sons and 
hung them upon the peaceful walls of her 
Capitol. — among them those of the 28th and 
147th Pennsylvania Regiments and of Knap's 

Note 4. Many of the statistics herein given were furnished by Colonel John P. 

Nicholson a diligi-nt investigator of the history of the " 28th." 



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battery, as radiant with glory as the best — 
and no man can say more than this. 

Oh saved Country cherish your hving soldiers 
and mourn, never forgetting, the brave who 
died to save you. 



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